On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 04:34:07PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > There is the saying that "bad facts make bad law", and the specifics > of this most recent controversy are especially challenging. I would > urge caution before trying to create a complex set of policies and > mechanim when we've only had one such corner case in over 35 years. Well. we may have dodged a few bullets before now. Just in filesystems, I can think of Hans Reiser, Jeff Merkey, Boaz Harrosh, Daniel Phillips (no, i'm not saying any of the others did anything as heinous as Hans, but they were all pretty disastrous in their own ways). I don't think we can necessarily generalise from these examples to, say, Lustre. That has its own unique challenges, and I don't think that making them do more paperwork will be helpful.
